Ebook: In Context: the Reade Festschrift
Author: Irving Finkel St John Simpson
- Genre: History // Archaeology
- Year: 2021
- Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
- City: Oxford
- Language: English
- pdf
In Context: the Reade Festschrift is a collection of invited and peer-reviewed essays by friends and colleagues of Julian Edgeworth Reade, sometime Mesopotamia curator at the British Museum from 1975 to 2000. Its coverage is designed to reflect the breadth of the recipient’s professional interests, from Assyria and Mesopotamia in general, to the relations between Mesopotamia and other regions and the impact of nineteenth-century discoveries on the field of Assyriology. They include both syntheses and archaeological research, as well as reports on archival discoveries. Context is always crucial. Here is fresh work from which any reader can gain a new appreciation of the importance of the ancient Near East.
Table of Contents
Preface
J.E. Reade: a bibliography of works (1967–2019)
Part 1: Mesopotamia
Massimo VIDALE et al. – Palaeolithic finds from Nineveh
Juris ZARINS – Ur, Lagash and the Gutians: a study of late 3rd millennium BC: Mesopotamian archaeology, texts and politics
Irving L. FINKEL – New light on an old game
Sébastien REY – A Seleucid cult of Sumerian royal ancestors in Girsu
Aage WESTENHOLZ – The sins of Nippur
Ariane THOMAS – A royal chariot for Sargon II
John MACGINNIS – The gods of Arbail
Mogens T. LARSEN – The development of Neo-Assyrian narrative art: toward Assurbanipal’s Ulai river reliefs
Irene WINTER – The harpist’s left hand: a detail from the ‘Banquet Scene’ of Assurbanipal in the North Palace at Nineveh
Simo PARPOLA – The population of Nineveh
St John SIMPSON – Annihilating Assyria
Part 2: Foreign connections
J. Mark KENOYER – Bleached carnelian beads of the Indus Tradition, 3rd millennium BC: origins and variations
Asko PARPOLA – Iconographic evidence of Mesopotamian influence on Harappan ideology and its survival in the royal rites of the Veda and Hinduism
Maurizio CATTANI – The Joint Hadd Project and the Early Bronze Age in south-east Arabia
Stefan KROLL – The location of Mešta in archaeological context
Jonathan N. TUBB – Assyrians in Transjordan
Julie R. ANDERSON – Of Kushite kings and sacred landscapes in the Middle Nile valley
Part 3: Discovery and reception
Dan POTTS – ‘Un coup terrible de la fortune:’ A. Clément and the Qurna disaster of 1855
Stefania ERMIDORO – The William Kennett Loftus legacy to the north: Near Eastern materials in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tim CLAYDEN – ‘Two unpublished drawings of excavations at Nimrud’ revisited
John RUSSELL – A bit of a bull and a bit of a puzzle
Henrietta McCALL and Michael SEYMOUR – George Scharf and Assyrian sculpture
Paul COLLINS – Casts and the reception of Assyria
Table of Contents
Preface
J.E. Reade: a bibliography of works (1967–2019)
Part 1: Mesopotamia
Massimo VIDALE et al. – Palaeolithic finds from Nineveh
Juris ZARINS – Ur, Lagash and the Gutians: a study of late 3rd millennium BC: Mesopotamian archaeology, texts and politics
Irving L. FINKEL – New light on an old game
Sébastien REY – A Seleucid cult of Sumerian royal ancestors in Girsu
Aage WESTENHOLZ – The sins of Nippur
Ariane THOMAS – A royal chariot for Sargon II
John MACGINNIS – The gods of Arbail
Mogens T. LARSEN – The development of Neo-Assyrian narrative art: toward Assurbanipal’s Ulai river reliefs
Irene WINTER – The harpist’s left hand: a detail from the ‘Banquet Scene’ of Assurbanipal in the North Palace at Nineveh
Simo PARPOLA – The population of Nineveh
St John SIMPSON – Annihilating Assyria
Part 2: Foreign connections
J. Mark KENOYER – Bleached carnelian beads of the Indus Tradition, 3rd millennium BC: origins and variations
Asko PARPOLA – Iconographic evidence of Mesopotamian influence on Harappan ideology and its survival in the royal rites of the Veda and Hinduism
Maurizio CATTANI – The Joint Hadd Project and the Early Bronze Age in south-east Arabia
Stefan KROLL – The location of Mešta in archaeological context
Jonathan N. TUBB – Assyrians in Transjordan
Julie R. ANDERSON – Of Kushite kings and sacred landscapes in the Middle Nile valley
Part 3: Discovery and reception
Dan POTTS – ‘Un coup terrible de la fortune:’ A. Clément and the Qurna disaster of 1855
Stefania ERMIDORO – The William Kennett Loftus legacy to the north: Near Eastern materials in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tim CLAYDEN – ‘Two unpublished drawings of excavations at Nimrud’ revisited
John RUSSELL – A bit of a bull and a bit of a puzzle
Henrietta McCALL and Michael SEYMOUR – George Scharf and Assyrian sculpture
Paul COLLINS – Casts and the reception of Assyria
Download the book In Context: the Reade Festschrift for free or read online
Continue reading on any device:
Last viewed books
Related books
{related-news}
Comments (0)